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Bir el Maliha, Israel

Kushi's Pundak 101

This legendary roadside attraction feels like a bizarre mirage, 101 kilometers outside the resort city of Eilat.
"There's a whole creative world out there that you see little glimpses of," actress Patricia Arquette says of California's High Desert, where her new show is set.
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Patricia Arquette Has a Thing for the Weird Art of California's High Desert

"There's some kind of energy in the desert that's very different than anywhere else," she says of the setting of her new Apple TV+ series.
Matthew Taub June 15, 2023
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Podcast: World Famous Crochet Museum

Step inside the cutest, most cuddly museum in the desert.
The Podcast Team June 15, 2023
Yermo, California

Liberty Sculpture Park

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.
Tribal symbols known as <em>wusum</em> attest to the ongoing presence of Bedouins in the desert.
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The 6,000-Year Story of the Negev Desert Is Etched in Stone

Millennia of rock art offer a library of human history in the Levant.
Gitit Ginat July 18, 2022
Qatar

'East-West/West-East'

Four steel monoliths stand in the Qatari desert, in a breathtaking work of large-scale art by Richard Serra.
Archaeologists believe the life-sized camel and equid reliefs were likely carved and recarved throughout the Neolithic.
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These Carved Camels Are the Oldest Life-Sized Reliefs in World

The ancient sculptures in Saudi Arabia were made when the desert was green and camels were wild.
Sarah Durn October 6, 2021
Prickly pear cactus with fruit in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the Six-Day War.
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The Prickly Symbolism of Cactus Fruit in Israel and Palestine

On different sides of border checkpoints, different views of a sweet treat.
Miriam Berger April 12, 2019
Winterhaven, California

Valley of the Names

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.
Rock art at Tassili n'Ajjer.
Algeria

Tassili n'Ajjer

The abstract sandstone rock formations at this Algerian national park are rich with prehistoric art.
Cabinetlandia library.
Deming, New Mexico

Cabinetlandia

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.
Wild Horses
Los Cerrillos, New Mexico

Origami in the Garden

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.
Arch
Kayenta, Arizona

Mystery Valley

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
The Generator workspace.
Sparks, Nevada

The Generator

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".
Nine Mile Canyon - the BLM has advised it as "an area of critical environmental concern"
Carbon County, Utah

Nine Mile Canyon

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
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Photo of the Week: 50,000 Lights Bloom in the Desert

See a blanket of tiny lights in Uluru, Australia.
Atlas Obscura March 28, 2016
Double Negative's north trench
Clark County, Nevada

Double Negative

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.
The Krblin Jihn Kabin.
Joshua Tree, California

'Krblin Jihn Kabin'

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.